Senior Project Manager

About this role

J Michael Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-impact informatics initiatives in collaboration with public health partners across federal, state, and local levels. This role leverages deep expertise in technical project management and team leadership to drive strategic planning, guide execution, and ensure successful delivery in fast-paced, evolving environments.

Key responsibilities include overseeing multi-disciplinary teams, managing project budgets, timelines, and resources, and fostering strong cross-functional collaboration among stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in advancing informatics initiatives, with a focus on surveillance and laboratory data systems, supporting efforts across public, nonprofit, and private sector organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively at the executive level, manage client relationships and escalations, and collaborate across agencies and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Drive organizational change and multi-system implementations, including readiness assessments, communication/training strategies, and adoption tracking.
• Engage stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, supporting project management activities by identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, and ensuring milestones and deliverables are met.
• Lead complex, multi-phase technical projects using client-directed methodologies and/or JMC Project Management Office (PMO) standards to develop and maintain documentation, including project approaches, delivery plans, tracking tools, and collaborative templates.
• Execute project management activities in alignment with client and JMC PMO policies, including (but not limited to) informatics business needs assessments, project process agreements, project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, requirements, statements of work, and public health information security considerations.
• Apply QA and testing methodol...